Mark twain video clip biography
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Mark twain video clip biography
Mark Twain
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them"
Birthplace
Florida, US
Education
Twain moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri at the age of four, and received a public school education there.
Other jobs
Having worked as a printer and riverboat pilot during his teenage years, Twain had a brief stint as a silver miner in Nevada before getting a job on the Daily Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia.
Did you know?
Mark Twain is a pen name; the author's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
The reason for his choice of pseudonym has long been a cause of speculation, with opinion divided between two main theories. The first is that the name came from Twain's time on the riverboats, when the depth of "safe water" – two fathoms – was measured on a sounding line and indicated by calling "mark twain".
The second explanation is that the name originated from his time in Nevada, when he w